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Speaker 1: Have you ever made plans with a friend and they

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say something like let's hang out this weekend, or maybe

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someone told you just drop by any time, or you

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hear people say let's catch up soon. These are all

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very common phrasal verbs that we use all the time

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when talking about social situations. Phrasal verbs are everywhere in

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daily life. So for today's podcast English Lesson, we're going

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to look at several very practical phrasal verbs that you

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can use when talking about friends, plans, and everyday social life.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast Episode one, thy fourteen

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phrasal verbs for social situations. Let's start with the phrasal

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verb hang out. Hang Out means to spend time with

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someone in a relaxed, casual way. There's usually no big

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plan or special activity. You're just spending time together. For example,

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you might text a friend and say, hey, you want

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to hang out this weekend. That just means you want

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to spend time together, or like after work, some coworkers

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might say, hey, let's hang out for a bit and

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grab a beer, or maybe someone says, we just stayed

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home and hung out all evening watching movies. So when

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you hang out, you're spending time together in a casual,

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relaxed way. In a similar way we use hang around,

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but the feeling is a little different from hangout. Hang

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around means to stay somewhere for a period of time,

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often without doing anything special, like when you're waiting for something,

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you know, killing time. Like imagine you finish work early,

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but your friend is still busy, so you decide to

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stay nearby. You might say, you know, I'll just hang

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around here until you're done. In this case, you're not

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really socializing, you're just staying in that place. And sometimes

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hang around can have even a slightly negative feeling, like

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if someone says, oh, there were a bunch of kids

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hanging around outside the store, it can suggest they're just

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standing there with nothing to do and maybe even causing trouble.

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So here's the key difference. If you hang out, you're

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spending time with someone in a relaxed and social way,

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but if you hang around, you're just staying in a place.

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Often waiting or with no clear purpose. Next, let's look

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at show up. Show up means to arrive at a place,

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especially when you're expected to be there. Like imagine you

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invite some friends to your house for dinner at seven,

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you might say everyone showed up right on time. Or

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sometimes people use show up when someone is late, like oh,

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he said he'd be here at six, but he didn't

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show up until seven point thirty. Now here's another example.

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If you plan a party and don't only a few

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people come, you might say, yeah, not many people showed up.

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So show up is all about arriving at a place,

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especially for a plan or an event. Another common social

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phrasal verb is drop by. Drop by means to visit

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someone casually, usually without a plan or without staying for

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a long time. For example, you might say to a friend, hey,

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feel free to drop by anytime. That means they can

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visit you casually. Here's another example, I dropped by my

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friend's house on my way home just to say hello.

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Or imagine you're at home and a friend suddenly rings

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your doorbell. You might say, oh, I wasn't expecting you

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to drop by. So drop by has the feeling of

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a short casual visit. In a similar way, we also

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use stop by. Stop By has the nuance of visiting

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someone with a purpose, like I stop by Paul's house

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the other day to pick up his old bicycle. So

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drop by is more casual and stop by often has

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a reason for the visit. Now, let's look at come

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over and go over. Come over is similar to drop by,

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but it usually suggests a planned visit, often to someone's home.

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For example, you might say do you want to come

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over for dinner tonight? Or a few friends are coming

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over to watch the game. Here's another example, Hey, why

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don't you come over this weekend? We can cook something together.

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So when someone comes over, they visit your home, usually

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with a plan, and when you go over, you visit

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another person's home, like tomorrow, I'm going over to Ed's

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house with my guitar to play some music. So the

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difference is simple. People come over to your place and

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you go over to theirs. And finally, let's look at

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catch up. Catch up means to talk with someone and

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share news after you haven't seen or spoken to each

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other for some time. For example, imagine you meet an

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old friend after a long time. You might say, ah,

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it was great catching up with her. Or maybe you

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text a friend and say hey, let's catch up soon.

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That means you want to meet and talk about what's

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been happening in your lives recently. Here's another example. We

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met for coffee and spent two hours catching up. So

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catch up is all about reconnecting and sharing updates. So

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let's recap today. We looked at several phrasal verbs that

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are common in social situations. If you hang out, you

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spend time together in a relaxed way. If you hang around,

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you stay somewhere, often waiting or without a clear purpose.

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If you show up, you arrive somewhere, especially with a plan.

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And when you drop by, you visit someone casually and briefly,

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and stop by, well, that's usually a short visit with

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a purpose. When someone comes over, they visit your home,

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and when you go over, you visit someone else's home.

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And finally, when you catch up, you talk about well,

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you know, your recent news after some time apart. So

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here's your challenge this week. Try using one of these

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phrasal verbs in a real conversation. Maybe you can invite

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a friend to hang out, or tell someone to drop by,

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or say hey, let's catch up soon. These are the

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kinds of expressions that native speakers use every day, and

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the more you use them, the more natural your English

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will sound. And keep in mind the best way to

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remember English like this and any other word or phrase

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in English, is to take that word or phrase, write

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it in a sentence that's true for you or true

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in your world. Then memorize your sentences. Hey, thanks for listening,

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and remember, learning another language is not easy, but it's

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not impossible, and I'm here to help you on your journey.

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